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Posted 06/02/2010
Like many contemporary Winnipeg artists, Dominique Rey works in a number of media. She is a painter (in 1999 she graduated with a B.F.A. Honours degree in painting from the University of Manitoba); a photographer (in 2007 she received her MFA in photography from Bard College); a video artist; and a performance artist, one of the founding members of the Abzurbs, a renegade group of artists, musicians and actors who appear at openings and improvise a sort of prairie grown, post-punk Dada-esque opera (http://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/galleryoneoneone/abzurbs.html). She performs all of these activities with a considerable degree of imaginative passion and she often works on a number of them at the same time.
Her practice is to immerse herself in the world she is using as material, whether that means living with exotic dancers in South Carolina for her photographic series called “Selling Venus/Vénus au miroir” (her Photo Essay from this body of work published in Border Crossings won a Gold Medal at the National Magazine Awards in 2005); or spending months talking with an order of French nuns before shooting a video of their lives together.
Rey is a captivating artist, a quality mirrored in her personality. Her work, while it gets inside the lives of her subjects, is never exploitative. This predisposition is what gives her art its breadth, generosity and integrity.
Dominique Rey has had a dozen one-person shows and has participated in an equal number of group exhibitions in both French and English Canada. She has also done residencies in Manitoba, Quebec and New Brunswick. Dominique Rey has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and the Ricard Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in the Globe & Mail, Frieze, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and the Winnipeg Free Press. She lives in Winnipeg.
Robert Enright
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